Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1379-1)

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches.

Description :

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux
kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit
this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1927)

A flaw was found in the Linux Ethernet bridge's handling of IGMP
(Internet Group Management Protocol) packets. An unprivileged local
user could exploit this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2011-0716)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's AppArmor security
interface when invalid information was written to it. An unprivileged
local user could use this to cause a denial of service on the system.
(CVE-2011-3619).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.

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